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Me and my son's mother are making an attempt to repair our relationship =D> , to get that little "family" thing going on that I missed out on as kid...She knows well my affinity for esoteric knowledge, and saw an advertisement for "Mobile Presents The Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit...And thought that it would be a good little vacation to take...An exceprt:

QUOTE(http://www.mobile.org/home.html)This package includes Mobile accommodations and admittance to the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center and IMAX Theater. This includes combination tickets to the Exploreum Exhibits, Dead Sea Scrolls and the IMAX Theater.

The Dead Sea Scrolls - written over 2000 years ago - includes the earliest surviving texts of the books of the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament. These priceless manuscripts, first unearthed in a Judean Desert cave in 1947, are considered one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century.

Mobile's Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition features fragments of 12 different scrolls, including sections of the Books of Genesis-Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Isaiah and Jeremiah. The Deuteronomy scroll includes the text of the Ten Commandments.

The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition demonstrates how the Bible was written and faithfully transmitted from generation to generation to today.

The exhibit includes artifacts such as these jars, similar to those in which the scrolls were stored for over 2000 years. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Clara Amet, photographer.

IMAX
Learn more about archaeology and ancient civilizations...

Leave the exhibit gallery and experience two other ancient civilizations... in the Exploreum's adjacent IMAX Theater. Showing concurrently with the The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition are the giant screen films Mysteries of Egypt and Mystery of the Maya. Travel back 5000 years to the land of the Pharaohs, soar over the great pyramids and enter the shadowy chambers of King Tut's Tomb. Or journey through a millennium of Mayan history and culture and the exotic sights and sounds of the Mexican region

Sounds pretty cool, and I'm geeked to be spending time w/the fam...But...C'mon now...The real scrolls..???? I don't think so...But, I will give it that it is probably faithful recreation...But, I didn't come here to talk about the AYHJA bunch... :-$

Say you, about "The Qumran Library"...?

It doesn't say that it's the real Dead Sea scroll. It seems really interesting though. There is an IMAX Theatre near me...I'll have to see if they are going to have it.

man....i was jus thinking...i need to get smart...

I know you do....

In another part, they do mention that these are the genuine scrolls, but, I know I know better...But, I do think that this is interesting, and definitely a trip worth making...I was just curious to know had any of you ever studied the scrolls...

LoL...

I just didn't want to come right out and say, "Ooooo RAUM, LoL...."

i have studied enough to know they are authentic, and the are proof of the theory of the development of the Tanakh (TNK, or Old Testament) along the lines I have used as a basis of my study for some 12+years.

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Hmm...That's a start...Do you know of a resource that is worthy of checking out before I go and see the scrolls..? I don't leave until next weekend...

from the bookmarks I got from Pete,..

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scr ... rview.html

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What is Jeshua's connection to the Qumran community..?

Jeshua can be tied to the fraternities at Qumran pretty easy. mainly cause of the account of his baptism, by John the Baptist, who had been a prime candidate for Messiah, himself.

I personally know more than this, including the origin of the Holy trinity, and many other things that came from the Samothracians.

The mannerism of the Qumran Essenes is clear that they had inner knowledge of Pythagoras's academy, which the secular world has not had for that long, even now.

This "Baptism" of Jeshua, and the phenomenon described on that event, and certainly the strongest evidenve that he was a formal Initiate, and achieved Adepthood. There is no way he would have been baptised, otherwise.

That "Baptism" represents the first emergence of the earth from the waters. Waters is Mem, the letter M. The rising forth is into the A(Aleph), the unrestricted fresh air,.. and the rising forth, from the water into the air is the sound "sh"(Shin). This leaves the Initiate ; a title you (Ayhja) recieved in your ritual of coming forth,.."Beni Aretz" "Child of Earth."

A tau (cross) in the center of the MASh; the Darkness before the Light was called forth by Elohim.

The wondering in darkness follows the Initiate through the Seven Yom of Creation... and then he experiences other stages of development, all of which are clearly outlined,.. all the way up to the Mastery of the Self, through Sacrificial Death, AND BEYOND. (I'm not there yet, so don't bother askin if you can have my library). I may not be there, but no less than three of my teachers are,.. one of whom I believe you met at my house.

(by the way)
The washing of each other in the story is a secret that is restricted to the means by which I recieved it, but I can say it is more than a sponge bath.
(so, don't get your hopes up!) [-X

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